25 Mar 2007 // 10:00 PM

Whether with Animal Collective, through his solo work, or via a handful of other projects, Noah Lennox (or Panda Bear) makes a kind of disruptively joyful, emotionally affecting music operate on some sort of limbic plane to change your mood.

5 Oct 2006 // 11:00 PM

Glam rock laced with obscure super hero references and sapphic celebration, anyone? Yes, please. But don't get too hung up on the sci-fi sex trappings. At the radioactive core of Atomic Swindlers is a solid rock band that doesn't require gimmicks.

5 May 2004 // 10:00 PM

Sung Tongs is an inch more sublime than anything they’ve done previously, with more phenomenal use of their manic choir of Motown vocals, less scattered, clique-ish dissonance, and more sideshow bubblegum-pop freaking out on god-knows-what powerful substance.

12 Nov 2003 // 10:00 PM

Animal Collective creates melodies with their vocals or with their instruments that are either accessible or challenging—sometimes both at once—and molds it all into tracks and albums with a spacey, out of this world sound.